29-04-2013, 09:02 AM
Work, in its meaning of job or employment, is a fairly recent concept, although labour (exertion) is not.
Exchanging your labour on a daily basis in order to accrue, often quite meaningless, material belongings is, to a certain extent, a quite ludicrous preoccupation. But we all do it these days. It has become one of the organizing principles of society. And a society that is tired and or exhausted with little free time on its hands, is a society that is more easily ruled.
Personally, I think man should've done better to be creative about how he lives. A very large number of people are in perpetual debt and debt bondage is a rotten horrible form of servitude.
But today we are all directed into set ways of thinking and acting from our earliest/formative years.
I agree with Maggie too about being able to live without money. Or very little anyway. Being free of money, debt, asset ownership etc., is a quite liberating experience - as odd as it seems, it quite empowers one.
Exchanging your labour on a daily basis in order to accrue, often quite meaningless, material belongings is, to a certain extent, a quite ludicrous preoccupation. But we all do it these days. It has become one of the organizing principles of society. And a society that is tired and or exhausted with little free time on its hands, is a society that is more easily ruled.
Personally, I think man should've done better to be creative about how he lives. A very large number of people are in perpetual debt and debt bondage is a rotten horrible form of servitude.
But today we are all directed into set ways of thinking and acting from our earliest/formative years.
I agree with Maggie too about being able to live without money. Or very little anyway. Being free of money, debt, asset ownership etc., is a quite liberating experience - as odd as it seems, it quite empowers one.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14